an appearance of God in visible form, temporary and not necessarily material Such an appearance is to be contrasted with the Incarnation, in which there was a permanent union between God and complete manhood (body, soul , and spirit) (Cross, The Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church)
a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person
From the Greek, meaning an appearance of a god to a person, as when El wrestled with Jacob (Gen 32: 26-32), Yahweh appeared to Moses (Exod 3: 1-4: 17; 6: 2-13) and the elders of Israel (Exod 24: 9-11), or the resurrected Jesus revealed himself to Thomas (John 20: 24-29) and Paul (Acts 9: 3-9)
Is God coming down from heaven to earth in human form In Eden we take notice of God walking with man in the cool of the day (Gen 3: 8) Following the fall of man and his expulsion from the garden, God would no longer walk with man Yet God in His grace did come to man in various forms The ultimate form was when Christ was born as it clearly says in Galatians, "When the fullness of time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law " The ultimate theophany came in Emmanuel (God with us) Christ came into the world to be one with us, to walk and go before us and to restore that fellowship lost by Adam in Eden
a Greek word meaning "appearance of God," that is, the manifestation of the divine to human perception in some way
(Greek for "appearance of God") A manifestation or appearance of the divine; for example, when God appears in the burning bush to Moses See Chapter 2, Chapter 3
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[ thE-'ä-f&-nE ] (noun.) circa 1633. Medieval Latin theophania, from Late Greek theophaneia, from Greek the- + -phaneia ; more at EPIPHANY.